Five-star Manchester City on best top-flight goal run since 1950s

Free-scoring Manchester City are the first team to have scored five or more goals in three consecutive top-flight matches for almost 60 years.

Blackburn Rovers achieved the feat in the 1958-89 season and Pep Guardiola's side matched that return with Saturday's 5-0 demolition of Premier League basement boys Crystal Palace.

Leroy Sane opened the scoring a minute before half time and the league leaders were rampant after the interval – Raheem Sterling hitting a double before Sergio Aguero and substitute Fabian Delph got in on the act.

City beat 10-man Liverpool by the same scoreline in their previous home game before dispatching Watford 6-0 at Vicarage Road last weekend.